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Largest Food & Beverages Public Companies in South Africa
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Tiger Brands, AVI, Astral Foods, Oceana Group and RCL Foods.
 | Tiger Brands Ltd is an African producer and distributor of branded food, beverage, home, and personal care products. Its operations are predominantly in Southern Africa, with additional market presence in other parts of the African continent through exports. The company's reportable product segments are Milling and Baking, Grains, Culinary, Snacks, Treats and Beverages, Home, Personal and Baby Care. The company derives the majority of revenue from the product sales of the Culinary segment, which includes canned fruit and vegetables, condiments and ingredients, spreads, baby nutrition and Davita exports. | $17 | -17% | $3B | $2B | 1.1x | 5.6x | ||
| AVI Ltd owns and manages a portfolio of various brands, with various product categories such as hot beverages, biscuits and snacks, frozen food, personal care products, cosmetics, and fashion supplies. These brands share the group's IT, finance, human resources, logistics, marketing, and procurement services. Its reportable segments are: Food and Beverage brands (comprising Entyce Beverages, Snackworks, and I&J), Fashion brands (comprising its Personal Care and Footwear & Apparel brands), and Corporate. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Food and Beverage brands segment, which includes its brands offering tea, coffee, creamer, sweet and savoury biscuits, baked and fried potatoes, maize snacks, seafood, etc. Geographically, it generates maximum revenue from South Africa. | $6 | +0% | $2B | $2B | 2.1x | 8.0x | ||
| Astral Foods Ltd is an integrated poultry producer operating under several brands. It supplies different poultry needs in Africa. The activities are divided into two operating segments. The poultry segment comprises the sale of poultry-related products for human consumption as well as day-old broilers, hatching eggs, and day-old parent stock. The Feed segment comprises the sale of a wide range of specialized feed products for commercially farmed animal species. The majority of revenue is generated from the poultry segment. The company has multiple processing facilities to get the poultry to ready-to-eat form and manufacture vitamin and mineral feed additives. | $15 | -- | $561M | $507M | 0.4x | 5.3x | ||
| Oceana Group Ltd is a diversified, international fish and food company engaged in the responsible catching, procuring, processing, marketing and distribution of fish and food products. Its products and services include canned fish (notably pilchards), other canned foods such as tuna, sardines and canned meats, fishmeal and fish oil for the aquaculture, animal feed and pet food industries, as well as wild-caught seafood including horse mackerel, hake, squid and lobster. The Group operates through three main segments: Lucky Star Foods, Fishmeal and Fish Oil, and Wild Caught Seafood, with the majority of its revenue generated from the Lucky Star Foods segment. Geographically, the Group operates in South Africa, Namibia, other parts of Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Far East. | $4 | -- | $432M | $544M | 0.9x | 5.5x | ||
| RCL Foods Ltd is a South African food manufacturer that produces Yum Yum peanut butter, Nola mayonnaise, Ouma rusks, Pieman’s pies, Number 1 mageu, Sunbake bread, Supreme flour, Selati sugar, Bobtail, and Canine Cuisine dog food, Catmor and Feline Cuisine cat food, and Molatek animal feed, to name a few. It also produces a wide range of speciality and private label products. Its operating segments include Groceries, Baking, and Sugar. | $0 | -- | $431M | $558M | 0.3x | 3.3x | ||
| RFG Holdings Ltd is a South Africa-based company engaged in supplying fresh, frozen, and convenient meal solutions. The product range offered by the company includes canned fruit, jam, vegetable and meat products, bottled salads, fruit juices and purees, fresh ready meals, pies, pastries, bakery, and dairy products. The business operates under two divisions namely, Long life foods and Fresh products. Long life foods division, which includes canned fruits and vegetables, jams, bottled salads, fruit juice, fruit purees, baby food, and canned meat, contributes majorly to the group's revenue. The company's reportable segments include Regional which is the key revenue-generating segment, and International. | $1 | +39% | $388M | $426M | — | — | ||
| Rainbow Chicken Ltd is a fully integrated broiler producing company involved in all stages of chicken production from farm to fork. It is a trusted South African heritage brand that consumers have come to rely on for quality chicken products. Its diverse product offering includes the following product sets: Fresh Chicken, Standard Chicken, Frozen Specialized Chicken, Chilled process meat. It segments includes Chicken, Animal Feed (consisting of Epol and Driehoek), Waste-to-Value (consisting of Matzonox and Matzonox Fertilisers), Group (other immaterial segments). Maximum of revenue is from Chicken Segment. | $0 | +53% | $319M | $233M | 0.2x | 3.4x | ||
| Median | $4 | +20% | $432M | $544M | 0.6x | 5.4x |
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